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MAIN ST RESILIENCE PLAN Community Workshops Newton St. Meeting #1 CITY OF NEW ORLEANS June 18, 2015 AGENDA Welcome & Introductions Project Overview Defining resilience Coordination with other planning efforts What Weve

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MAIN ST RESILIENCE PLAN CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

Community Workshops Newton St. Meeting #1 June 18, 2015

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AGENDA

  • Welcome & Introductions
  • Project Overview
  • Defining resilience
  • Coordination with other planning efforts
  • What We’ve Learned (so far)
  • Residential and Commercial Market
  • Infrastructure / Built Environment
  • Risk and Other Resilience Elements
  • Discussion on Corridor Vulnerability

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MEETING #1 OBJECTIVES:

  • Introduce this project and understand relationships between related activities
  • Understand resilience as applied to commercial corridors
  • Review key indicators and input gathered so far on Newton
  • Understand priority concerns and opportunities for improving corridor and

business resilience

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PROJECT OVERVIEW

Goals Schedule Community Engagement

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PROJECT GOALS

1. Developed a shared definition of resilient commercial corridors for New Orleans 2. Create a measurable and actionable methodology for assessing the resilience of commercial corridors or Main Streets. 3. Apply methodology to 6 corridors (5 State-designated Main Streets), in the city and develop individualized recommendations for each to address resiliency gaps 4. Develop how-to guides for businesses for improving resiliency as applied to business operations and for businesses/property-owners for improving building resiliency

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City Planning Commission Metro-So Source, urce, llc llc

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PAC Meeting #3

OVERVIEW OF PLANNING PROCESS

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Initialization

  • Defining Resilience for Main Streets
  • Review Previous Efforts

Assessment

  • Develop standardized assessment
  • Data collection (primary)
  • Business occupant survey

Analysis & Recommendations

  • Commercial and residential market analysis
  • Resilience gap analysis
  • Infrastructure improvements and revitalization strategies

Final Plan

  • Technical guides: business operations & building hardening
  • Draft and final plan; public presentations

PAC Meeting #1 PAC Meeting #2 PAC Meeting #4

March / April May / June July / August August / September Corridor workshops 1 Business workshops Community meetings Corridor workshops 2 Public presentations

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DEFINING RESILIENCE:

CITY RESILIENCE FRAMEWORK

“Capacity of cities to function so that the people living and working in the cities – particularly the poor and vulnerable – survive and thrive no matter what stresses or shocks they encounter”

drawn from the Rockefeller Foundation 100 Resilient Cities

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MASTER PLAN: RESILIENCE (Chapter 12)

  • Capacity to anticipate significant multi-hazard threats, to reduce overall the community’s

vulnerability to hazard events, and to respond to and recover from specific hazard events when they occur

  • Capacity to cope with and recover from present-day risks
  • Capacity to adapt to changing conditions, including uncertain, unknown, or unpredictable

risks

drawn from the Community and Regional Resilience Institute (CARRI)

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ASSESSING A RESILIENT COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR

  • How vulnerable are corridor businesses, buildings and infrastructure to shock events?
  • What infrastructure investments are required to facilitate economic prosperity and mitigate

risks/hazards?

  • Are corridor businesses able to weather and reduce stresses, particularly economic

forces?

  • Does the corridor provide local (adjacent) community…

…essential services on an ongoing basis & immediately following a shock event? …emergency shelter? …social & community gathering spaces?

  • Do corridor businesses have access, availability, and the capacity to engage resources

needed to weather shocks & stresses?

  • Are adequate social networks in place to support corridor businesses during shocks and

stresses?

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COORDINATING WITH OTHER EFFORTS

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  • HUD NDRC Application
  • Rockefeller 100 Resilient Cities
  • NORA Commercial Corridor Market Value Analysis
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WHAT WE’VE LEARNED (SO FAR…)

Residential and Commercial Market Infrastructure / Built Environment Risk and Other Resilience Elements

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CORRIDOR PROFILE: BUSINESSES

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  • 30 Businesses
  • 13 Non business organizations
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CORRIDOR PROFILE: ESSENTIAL SERVICES

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CORRIDOR PROFILE: BUSINESSES

Number Industry Examples 7 Membership Organizations Churches 7 Food stores Groceries, convenience stores 6 Construction Special Trade Contractors Plumbing, heating, electric, painting, masonry, roofing, demolition, etc. 6 Social Services Childcare, aging, homeless

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  • Mostly serve the immediate neighborhood
  • Cluster of special trade contractors

Sources: InfoUSA, 2015; City of New Orleans

  • ccupancy licenses, 2015
  • Others are mostly service businesses: beauty, legal, printing, veterinary, insurance, etc.
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CORRIDOR PROFILE: BUSINESSES

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  • Entities are older than those in other corridors as a whole

Sources: InfoUSA, 2015; City of New Orleans

  • ccupancy licenses, 2015

50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 before 1990 1990 to 1994 1995 to 1999 2000 to 2004 2005 to 2009 2010 to 2015

Entities by Year Started - All Corridors

Business Non-Business 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 before 1990 1990 to 1994 1995 to 1999 2000 to 2004 2005 to 2009 2010 to 2015

Entities by Year Started - Newton Street

Business Non-Business

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CORRIDOR PROFILE: PEOPLE

Population immediately surrounding Newton has grown at a significantly slower pace than the rest of the city

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0.0% 2.0% 4.0% 6.0% 8.0% 10.0% 12.0% Newton 0.1 Mile Radius Newton 0.25 Mile Radius Newton 0.5 Mile Radius New Orleans

Population Change, 2010-2015

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CORRIDOR PROFILE: PEOPLE

  • Median Age is slightly

lower than the rest of the city

  • Corridor is aging at

roughly the same rate as the city

  • Has seen a decline in

children, middle age, and elderly groups

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32 33 34 35 36 2010 2015

Median Age

Newton 1/4 Mile Orleans Parish

  • 10%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 0-19 20-34 35-49 50-64 65-79 80+

Age Group Rate of Change, 2010-2015

Newton Change New Orleans Change

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  • Median household income is lower near corridor than in rest of city ($27,992
  • vs. $37,146, 25% lower)
  • More households in lower income groups than rest of city; fewer households

in high income groups

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CORRIDOR PROFILE: PEOPLE

$- $10,000 $20,000 $30,000 $40,000 Newton 1/4 Mile New Orleans

2013 Median HH Income

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% Over $100,000 $50,000-$99,999 $35,000-$49,999 $20,000-$34,999 Under $20,000

Houshold Income Groups, 2013

New Orleans Newton 1/4 Mile

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CORRIDOR PROFILE: AFFORDABILITY

  • Median rent and median home values are lower near Newton than in

the rest of the city

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$- $50,000 $100,000 $150,000 $200,000 Median Home Value

Median Home Value

Newton 1/4 Mile New Orleans $745 $750 $755 $760 $765 $770 Median Rent

Median Rent

Newton 1/4 Mile New Orleans

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  • More people rent near Newton, and rent is a higher percentage of household

income than the rest of the city

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CORRIDOR PROFILE: AFFORDABILITY

64.4% 35.6% 52.7% 47.3%

Own vs. Rent Homes

0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% Newton 1/4 Mile New Orleans

Rent as Percentage of Income

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AFFORDABILITY: HOUSING + TRANSPORTATION

  • Median Income Family
  • 4 People
  • 2 Commuters
  • $47,429 annual income

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AFFORDABILITY: HOUSING + TRANSPORTATION

  • Moderate Income Family
  • 3 People
  • 1 Commuter
  • $37,943 annual income

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AFFORDABILITY: HOUSING + TRANSPORTATION

  • Very Low Income

Individual

  • 1 Person
  • 1 Commuter
  • $11,720 annual income

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MARKET ASSESSMENT

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Examined three markets:

  • Neighborhood: 1/2-mile buffer
  • The “convenience” market (groceries, take-out

food, pharmacy)

  • 25% capture rate
  • Community: 3-mile drive distance
  • Comparison shopping (restaurants, clothing,

furniture, electronics, hobby goods)

  • 3% capture rate
  • Region: 8-mile drive distance
  • Destination retail and entertainment (cultural

institutions, specialty items)

  • 0.25% capture rate

Source: Esri 2015

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MARKET ASSESSMENT

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Raw SUPPLY and DEMAND indicators suggest that there is Modest unmet demand for:

  • Automobile dealer: $4.3 million leakage
  • Gasoline station: $2.3 million leakage
  • General merchandise store (dollar store, pharmacy): $2.2 million leakage

Source: Esri and Dun & Bradstreet, 2015, GCR Analysis

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MARKET ASSESSMENT

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BUT….

  • What kind of Corridor does the Newton Street community want to be?
  • What space is available for business growth?
  • How will the market change?
  • How would changes in population affect business viability?
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FLOOD ZONES

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PRELIMINARY FEMA DFIRM Large portions of Newton are in AE Zone (100-year flood)

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INFRASTRUCTURE: SEWER & DRAINAGE

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CORRIDOR ELEVATION

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CORRIDOR BUILDINGS

  • Appear occupied: 69%
  • In ‘average’ or better condition: 77%
  • Elevated foundations: 29%
  • ADA accessible entrance: 55%
  • Elevated Mechanical, Electrical, or Plumbing systems (usually HVAC): 42%
  • Protection for windows or doors: 31%
  • Appendages, such as signs, awnings, or overhangs: 47%

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BUSINESS SURVEY

  • 4 of 23 listed business completed

surveyed

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OTHER FACTORS: CRIME & SAFETY

  • Overall calls to NOPD have decreased, more

than the city as a whole

  • Property crime calls have increased somewhat

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Highest concentration of 911 call in 2014

  • 60.0%
  • 50.0%
  • 40.0%
  • 30.0%
  • 20.0%
  • 10.0%

0.0% 10.0% 20.0% Other Property Traffic Vice Violent All Calls

Change in NOPD Calls, 2012-2014

New Orleans Newton

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OTHER FACTORS: SOCIAL NETWORKS

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DISCUSSION: CORRIDOR VULNERABILITY

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TOPICS OF DISCUSSION:

  • What weather, economic, demographic, or social events have/can impact the

corridor?

  • What were/are the impacts to the corridor?
  • For past events, what was the recovery time?
  • What infrastructure investments would facilitate the capacity of the corridor to

withstand and recover?

  • What non-infrastructure public investments would facilitate the capacity of the

corridor to withstand and recover? (i.e. police patrols, Main Streets funding, etc.)

  • What social services or social places are needed on the corridor?

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DISCUSSION: BUSINESSVULNERABILITY

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TOPICS OF DISCUSSION:

  • What individual, business and private investments

would facilitate the capacity of the corridor to withstand and recover?

  • How can/do businesses on the corridor work

together to withstand and recover?

  • What are essential services are currently lacking

from the corridor?

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Photo credit: Robert Morris, Uptown Messenger

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NEXT STEPS

  • Complete resilience assessments (June 30)
  • Business Continuity Workshops (June 29 – July 1)
  • Develop preliminary strategies for each corridor (July)
  • Corridor Workshop #2 (Newton: July 14)
  • Prioritize and refine

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THANK YOU

Dwight Norton – GCR dnorton@gcrincorporated.com Judith Dangerfield – Metro Source judithdangerfield@metro-source.com

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